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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	9780262037907
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	006.35
Item number	VEA
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Veale, Tony
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Twitterbots:
Remainder of title	making machines that make meaning
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	MIT press
Place of publication, distribution, etc.	New Jersey
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	2018
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	352 p.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price type code	USD
Price amount	29.95
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc.	ABOUT TWITTERBOTS<br/>The world of Twitterbots, from botdom’s greatest hits to bot construction to the place of the bot in the social media universe.<br/><br/>Twitter offers a unique medium for creativity and curiosity for humans and machines. The tweets of Twitterbots, autonomous software systems that send messages of their own composition into the Twittersphere, mingle with the tweets of human creators; the next person to follow you on Twitter or to “like” your tweets may not a person at all. The next generator of content that you follow on Twitter may also be a bot. This book examines the world of Twitterbots, from botdom’s greatest hits to the hows and whys of bot-building to the place of bots in the social media landscape.<br/><br/>In Twitterbots, Tony Veale and Mike Cook examine not only the technical challenges of bending the affordances of Twitter to the implementation of your own Twitterbots but also the greater knowledge-engineering challenge of building bots that can craft witty, provocative, and concise outputs of their own. Veale and Cook offer a guided tour of some of Twitter’s most notable bots, from the deadpan @big_ben_clock, which tweets a series of BONGs every hour to mark the time, to the delightful @pentametron, which finds and pairs tweets that can be read in iambic pentameter, to the disaster of Microsoft’s @TayAndYou (which “learned” conspiracy theories, racism, and extreme politics from other tweets). They explain how to navigate Twitter’s software interfaces to program your own Twitterbots in Java, keeping the technical details to a minimum and focusing on the creative implications of bots and their generative worlds. Every Twitterbot, they argue, is a thought experiment given digital form; each embodies a hypothesis about the nature of meaning making and creativity that encourages its followers to become willing test subjects and eager consumers of automated creation.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Natural language generation (Computer science)
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Twitterbots
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Cook, Mike
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Source of classification or shelving scheme	Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type	Book

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		Dewey Decimal Classification			IT & Decisions Sciences	IB/IN/898	21-12-2022	Indian Institute of Management LRC	Indian Institute of Management LRC	General Stacks	01/02/2023	International Book Centre	1628.54		006.35 VEA	004112	01/02/2023	1	2476.87	01/02/2023	Book